Russian drone attack injures nine in Ukraine’s Odesa, officials say
Reuters Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured nine people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, four of them children, and also targeted Kyiv, the capital, Ukraine’s military officials said early on Tuesday. The injured children, which include two infants, have been hospitalised, as well as three of the injured adults, the […]
Major Russian air strikes destroy Kyiv power plant, damage other stations
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine on Thursday, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences. The major attack more than two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion completely destroyed […]
Russia stages major airstrike on Ukraine; one missile enters Polish airspace
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia struck critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s western region of Lviv with missiles early on Sunday, Kyiv said, in a major airstrike that saw one Russian cruise missile briefly fly into Polish airspace according to Warsaw. Moscow launched 57 missiles and drones in the attack that also targeted the capital Kyiv, two days […]
Russia launches largest missile attack on Kyiv in weeks
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia staged its largest missile attack in weeks on Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday, injuring at least 17 people and damaging schools, residential buildings and industrial facilities, officials said. The air force said its defences shot down all the inbound missiles that were fired after a 44-day pause in such […]
Life under fire: Ukraine’s second city keeps going despite Russian attacks
DAN PELSCHUK, of Reuters, reports on life in the beleaguered city in north-eastern Ukraine…
Russia uses Zircon hypersonic missile in Ukraine for first time, researchers say
Reuters A preliminary analysis concluded that Russia hit Kyiv last week with the hypersonic Zircon missile, its first use in the nearly two-year-old war, the head of a Kyiv research institute said on Monday, presenting a new challenge to Ukraine’s air defences. Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific-Research Institute for Forensic Examinations, said on […]
Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities kills five, officials say
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia unleashed missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during Wednesday morning’s rush hour, killing five people, wounding more than 30, and damaging residential buildings and energy infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said. Four people were killed when debris from a missile hit an 18-storey residential building in Golosiivskyi district in […]
Updated: Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities kill 18, Zelenskiy says
Updated: 10:30am (AEST) Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s two largest cities, killing 18 people, injuring more than 130 and damaging homes and infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said as Moscow’s war approaches its third year. The eastern city of Kharkiv suffered three waves of attacks. There were strikes on Kyiv and in central Ukraine […]
Russia pounds Ukraine’s two biggest cities in new wave of attacks
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia pounded Ukraine’s two biggest cities in a new wave of heavy air strikes on Tuesday, killing at least five civilians and prompting calls for the West to quickly provide more military assistance. The missile and drone attacks on the capital Kyiv and the north-eastern city of Kharkiv also wounded dozens of people, […]
Mass drone attack hits several Kyiv districts
Reuters Russian drones bore down on the city of Kyiv early on Friday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko and other officials reporting strikes on widely separated residential districts. It was the sixth drone attack on the capital this month. Two people were injured. Emergency staff work at a site of an apartment building damaged during a […]